Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
4.6from 1,274 ratings
- 416
- Episodes
- 139
- Transcribed
- 1,274
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 608K
- YouTube views
About Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Boring Books for Bedtime is a weekly, ad-free, AI-free sleep podcast in which we calmly, quietly read something rather boring to silence the brain chatter keeping you awake. Think Aristotle, Thoreau, and whoever wrote the 1897 Sears Catalog—mostly nonfiction, mostly old, a perfect balance of vaguely-but-not-too interesting. If you're on Team Sleepless, lie back, take a deep breath, and let us read you to rest.
- Publisher
- Sharon Handy
- Category
- health & fitness · health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Oct 2018
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
139 of 416 episodes have a transcript.
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Old Country Inns of England, by Henry Maskell and Edward Gregory, Part 3
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Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to Antiquities, by Gaston Maspero, Part 8
7 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Studying Art Abroad and How to Do It Cheaply, by Abigail May Alcott Niereker, Part 3 (CONCLUSION)
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Old Country Inns of England, by Henry Maskell and Edward Gregory, Part 3
Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] A great doctor of the church gave the maxim of that to be fasting after the fifth hour of a holy day was to be ipso facto excommunicate. Before inns became common, the parish clergy were expected to entertain travelers. It must be borne in mind that until the thirteenth century, many of the secular priests were married men. The Rolls of Parliament for 1379 contain a complaint that owing to the non-residents of the clergy, this duty of affording shelter to benighted wayfarers was in danger of lapsing. In our own boyhood it was still the traditional custom for travelers in remote districts to put up at the rectory. and this may help to account for the unnecessary size of rectories in sparsely populated country parishes. […]
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- 608,013
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- 4.6 / 5
- 1,274 ratings
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- 86
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